From the New York Times on Michael Barbaro, this is the Daily.

Today, in 2001, the U.S. granted temporary protected status to the people of El Salvador

after a pair of deadly earthquakes ravaged the country. Almost 20 years later,

that temporary status seemed permanent until the Trump administration announced it wasn't.

It's Tuesday, January 9.

In the 1980s, El Salvador was facing a civil war. Basically, leftist guerrillas or people were sort

of considered leftist guerrillas.

We were fighting against a military-controlled government.

Osam Ahmed reports on Central America for the times.

It was a really brutal civil war. We're talking to 75,000 people killed over the course of 12

years. During which time, the U.S. provided a substantial sum of money to the government's

slash military of El Salvador to fight this war. At the end of it, the United Nations did a report

on what they found. They found that 95% of the killings were the responsibility of the U.S.

backed government. Too many of the thought of Central America is just that place way down below

Mexico that can't possibly constitute a threat to our well-being. The U.S. was looking at the

examples of Nicaragua and Cuba, and the Salvadoran government was very skilled at positing the leftists

as communists. And so not wanting to see another domino fall, the U.S. backed government,

including Jimmy Carter, the Democratic president at the time, began giving money. Of course,

that money got ramped up under Reagan.

Central America's problems do directly affect the security and the well-being of our own people.

And Central America is much closer to the United States than many of the world's

trouble spots that concern us. So we work to restore our own economy. We cannot afford to lose

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